o Attend Connect Pro Meetings with integrated conference call or Voice over IP audio. o If your meeting host is using integrated conferencing, you can let the meeting call you, and avoid entering cumbersome dialing codes.o See who has joined the meeting, and their role (host, presenter, or attendee)o View presentations, PDF documents, videos, and screen sharing provided by the meeting organizer. Rotate, pan, and zoom to choose your personal ’best view’ of shared contento View webcamera broadcasts from unlimited live camera feeds provided in the meetingo Participate in chat conversations throughout the meeting.o Join meetings attended by users on virtually any computer system: Mac, Windows, Linux, and Solaris. Plus other mobile attendees on iPhone and iPod touch.

Wow great news from Adobe at the Mobile World Congress 2010, Barcellona :

Adobe AIR on mobile devices, a consistent runtime for standalone applications to come out of the Open Screen Project™, an industry-wide initiative led by Adobe that has grown to close to 70 ecosystem partners.

support for the Android™ platform expected in 2010

Adobe also announced that a beta of Flash Player 10.1 was made available to content providers and mobile developers worldwide. With the general availability expected in the first half of 2010, Flash Player 10.1 is the first consistent runtime release of the Open Screen Project enabling uncompromised Web browsing of expressive applications, content and high definition (HD) videos across screens including new tablet devices, smartphones, netbooks, smartbooks, desktops and other consumer electronics.

Videos highlighting various aspects of Adobe Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR 2 prerelease software, including websites and applications, on devices from Open Screen Project partners and other providers.

www.adobe.com/go/airmobile

Follow Adobe at the official Mobile World Congress blog at blogs.adobe.com/flashplatform.

" The mobile version of the Flex framework (code-named “Slider”) will provide structure and guidelines for creating application experiences that translate well across platforms, and make it easy to build adaptable multiscreen applications. “Slider” may be used by a broad spectrum of Adobe customers, from traditional media brands and agencies to internal IT organizations. Initial applications built with “Slider” will range from simple companion applications that complement existing web or desktop applications, to more complex contextual applications where multiscreen delivery is a core requirement from the outset.

There are several reasons why developing for non-PC devices requires a framework that is different from the Flex framework currently used to create applications for the desktop. First and foremost, the input mechanisms, screen real estate, and interaction patterns, commonly found on mobile devices differ in significant ways from the desktop. Supporting interaction patterns such as five-way navigation, soft keys, and gestures, are important factors in building mobile applications and need to be considered by any framework targeting mobile devices. Second, target devices are expected to be more constrained in terms of both memory and processor speed for the foreseeable future. In the long run, as devices become more capable, some of the key elements of “Slider” will likely be integrated with the desktop Flex framework to provide a more unified software development kit (SDK) across platforms.

Based on the Flex 4 codebase, “Slider” will include significant changes to optimize performance and user experience for more constrained device environments. The initial “Slider” framework will be optimized to run on high-end smartphones (phones with a processor speed of 400Mhz or more and 128MB of RAM), and will initially target standalone application environments such as Adobe® AIR.® This matches the category of devices targeted by Adobe Flash® Player 10 and fits with the type of device that will likely be most interesting for application developers.

While the features of Flex may be modified from their desktop counterparts, the goal will be to preserve the core capabilities of the desktop framework that make sense for mobile. The “soul of Flex” will be maintained, including the underlying Adobe Flash API, the language, and core capabilities such as binding, skinning, layout, styling, and media support. In all cases, any modifications will be balanced with the goal of getting great performance on mobile devices.

“Slider” will also include new capabilities specifically designed for mobile development, such as a construct for managing “screens” of an application, and the notion of resolution-independent sizing to deal with screen-size variations. A new set of user interface components designed for mobile form factors and input methods will be added. Finally, “Slider” will encapsulate design principles and guidelines that make it easy to create applications that fit in across a range of native platforms."

Samsung just extended support to the Java and Windows Mobile platforms in addition to Symbian for their developer network program, Samsung Mobile Innovator. Samsung Mobile Innovator is free to join, and basic (Hub) membership is open to everyone at all levels of interest in open mobile devices. Join the Samsung mobile community, take advantage of the resources Samsung offers and discuss your ideas and challenges with other developers and Samsung!

Less than one month ago, a 16GB iPhone was sent to me for development purposes. We have some clients interested in porting their web applications to iPhone devices so I needed the Apple device to test applications.

After one month testing I can say that I'm totally disappointed with the iPhone as mobile device and today I've turned back to my Nokia N95.

First I thought it was only a matter of time. I believed that, as usual, when you buy a new device you need time to take confidence with the new tools, features and shortcuts.But I was wrong.These are some of the most important bad things about iPhone that made me switch back to Nokia N95:

1. Low Battery Duration: a mobile phone can't last 4 hours. And the time could be a lot less if you browse internet, watch YouTube videos, using the GPS mapping system, launch applications, listening music . Everything on the iPhone is battery-intensive and can drastically reduce the battery usage. I can't recharge my phone 4 times per day. It's absurd ! My N95's battery last all day long (watching videos, navigating, using the GPS ...)

2. Poor camera quality: the quality of the camera is very low (2 MegaPixels). You can't print (with a decent quality) an image taken with 2MP camera. Nokia N95 has 5MP camera.

3. No flash and no zoom: when I discovered this I went crazy. iPhone camera DOES NOT have flash and zoom. Is useful a digital camera without the flash and zoom features ? Not at all. Th Nokia N95 has a 5MP camera that means having a real digital camera device with you !

4. No video: iPhone can't make videos. It's fun because iPhone gives you the ability to watch videos on the web via YouTube but the camera can't take a video. I travel a lot for conferences and I often need to shoot video quickly. The Nokia N95 makes great videos.

5. No MMS: Multimedia messages are very popular in Italy. They're fun and useful. iPhone can't send MMS messages.

6. Bad autocomplete features: This is one of the worst feature that makes me very unhappy. When you write text messages iPhone tries to help you autocompleting text. 95% percent the system is wrong. Then if you don't click on the popup with the suggested text it will overwrite your word. It should work in the opposite way letting me choose whether accepting the suggestion or not. The Nokia's T9 system is very powerful and useful. I can write a complete message while driving without watching at the mobile screen (it's impossible to do that with iPhone)

7. No video conference call: I'm not a fan of video calls but they can be useful when you want to see your girlfriend when you're out for business for a long time. iPhone does not support video calls.

8. no FlashLite plugin for browser: I'm honest. With the ecosystem of applications available for the iPhone you won't miss Flash Lite standalone player. But what it's missing is the Flash player browser plugin. I think that the iPhone is a great Internet device. But it's a great limit for an Internet device not to show flash contents. Nokia N95 has Flash Lite player embedded.

9. No Expansion slot: 8 or 16GB can't be enough, especially if you start installing many applications, copying videos and music. iPhone does not have any expansion slot. Nokia N95 supports microSD cards !

10. Cut and Paste: no needs to explain this feature. You can't cut/copy and paste anything !

UPDATE: 11. Modem usage: this is something
I forgot to mention but it's crucial for a mobile device. iPhone device
can't be used as a modem connecting it to a laptop via USB. The Nokia
N95 once connected through USB to a laptop can connect to Internet
working as a modem.

iPhone is a trendy device. It's cool, user friendly, with a a fabolous screen (for size and quality) and it's one of the best Internet device I've tested so far. But it's not a mobile phone.

We've released MobyMobile platform in english at least ! MobyMobile is an innovative technological solution which gives you on demand distribution and fruition of editorial contents of various genres through mobile phones, also delivering high quality interactive images and films.

MobyMobile formats contents in a particular way,
reducing their weight in KB in order to considerably reduce the
download time required; and therefore, the cost for the user is also
kept down and his satisfaction maximum.

MobyMobile is the solution finally capable of
distributing multimedia editorial contents through a world of 60
million mobile phones active today in Italy (almost triple the number
of computers connected to the internet!).

I'm glad to announce a new project's on which Comtaste is working on : YuBuk. Flex with cross scripting techniques, Google MAPS, AJAX with Scriptacolous and Prototype libraries are some of the technologies involved in this project. It was very fun to see how a simple web based old style application in some months turned into a real rich internet application.

We have published a Case Study on our site, where you can have more details.

Yubuk is a platform which is
accessible on the internet and on mobile terminals for all those who
love Italy for its enchanting locations, for its excellent cuisine and
exceptional hotels. Yubuk.com contains information on ten of the
“coolest” locations in Italy, information which is accessible to all
and to which all the users can contribute and create, modify or comment.

This is one of the best and most useful mash up Rich Internet Application we've worked on. In fact to be able to conceive new and richer modes of fruition, the
technological choice has also required a careful analysis of the
languages and the standards of highest profile.

Starting from the initial prerequisites, at Comtaste we have analyzed the following list of
technologies was opted for which together has contributed to create a
true and real mash-up application:

AJAX with Scriptacolous and Prototype libraries

Flex with cross scripting techniques

Google MAPS

PHP

Zend Framework

MySql

It was chosen to use Google Maps to visualize, through the
use of its API, the restaurants, hotels and all the locations present
in the data bank of Ybuk.com. Furthermore, Ajax and Javascript
functions were adopted to reduce the minimum traffic of data and
download only the data relative to the portion of map visualized by the
user. Through the use of the combination of Flex and Javascript
technologies additional filters were made available to the user to
optimize the searches on the map.

The increase of the visits
to the site has brought (and will continue to bring more) an increase
of traffic and load on the infrastructure web server. To avoid problems
of instability or delays on the site, it was decided to separate the
principle applications of the site on two different servers, Apache and
PHP 5 was installed on the first, and instead MySOL is present on the
second. Both applications were configured in order to obtain the best
performance in relation to the load.

To improve the entire
infrastructure of the site, a course or restructuring of the code was
undertaken to exploit the potential offered by a powerful and famous
PHP framework such as Zend. Security, reliability, modulation and
integration are just some of the benefits that such a choice entails.
The Zend Framework uses the latest development technology to be able to
produce flexible and extendible code, using the standard design pattern
for the web applications, the model-view-controller (MVC). Furthermore,
in the framework, there are also functions present among which
internationalization and localization, authentication, session
management, search, cache and integration with external APIs.

The
activities on Yubuk are up and running, with a continuous assistance
for the improvement and evolution of the service. Important goals have
already been achieved, measurable especially in terms of the
improvement of the user experience and the ranking of the portal.

Now that I have the N95 8GB I want to upload some videos from my laptop to my mobile. It will be very cool to see an entire movie while travelling on an airplane or train.When I first browse the video gallery of my N96 8GB I discover that the N95 8GB has integrated the full SpiderMan 3 movie. It's amazing to see the quality of the movie on the mobile device.

Anyway I started to google to find a way to convert a DVD to N95 video using some free software.This is a list of softwares I found and that I'm trying to use, feel free to add your favourite tools :